Not verifiable through experiment, but reasonable enough to pay the rent.
To a lot of people, so's this:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
I already have to deal with enough religion on a day-to-day basis. I don't need more of them.
That's probably the biggest fundamental danger with something like String Theory that currently has no method to test; if it effectively becomes dogma over centuries or even decades in the way that the Earth-centric Universe had then it's very, very difficult to undo that even when a new hypothesis with actual compelling evidence is crafted. The problem isn't even necessarily among scientists either, though they can have their doubts, but in a public that doesn't understand the scientific process and is unwilling to accept a scientific challenge to their deeply-held world views and religious perspectives.
I suppose that's why I want scientists to continue working on other hypotheses for the explanation of the fundamental structure of the Universe, so that scientists and the public don't make too many assumptions about what's right versus what's still up for debate.
I've been trying. Reading Soylent a little more each day. It's just so much easier to bait people into moderating me up on Slashdot that I haven't been able to completely let go.
At least they were good enough to do some sanity-checking, in case a terrorist was attempting to manufacture an incident where a hospital or refugee center was blown up...
Assuming the story is true. It could be a good cover story for some other type of intelligence gathering. Plus if you can get Daesh to stop using social media, it could be a good thing.
That was my thought. They must have figured that stemming the recruitment was worth having fewer low-hanging-fruit to attack. Of course, this isn't a new phenomenon, Geraldo Riviera did something similar during our ground operations when he was an embedded reporter and US military personnel have occasionally screwed up this way and cost us equipment too. It's possible they won't learn their lesson.
If this was exif tags from the selfie, then that would be data, not metadata.
I am really, really surprised that they chose to tell us any of this honestly, unless they announced this to try to stem the flow of marketing from ISIS toward young impressionable Muslims by making the social media aspect seem particularly dangerous. If the rank-and-file can't publish their experiences without being blown up, the rank-and-file might stop trying to encourage others to join. That leaves the older people at the top to try to make such decisions, and they might not be as good at convincing the young to join them.
I just took down an opener that was original equipment on my house from '79, an Allister Type IIA that was branded as a Delden Type II. It was on an accessory building so it did not need to have the sensors that doors on homes have to have, and it didn't even have a built-in receiver, one had to be added on extra if one wanted to use a radio control.
I replaced it because I needed more ceiling clearance, so I went with a jackshaft opener. It was working fine when I took it down.
The unit on the house itself is also pre-rolling-code, but has the capability of using the sensors for objects in the door path. A rolling-code receiver has been added and the original fixed-code mechanism disabled. I think it also dates to '79.
I'm wondering if this could get tossed simply out of being a violation of his freedom of expression. He was not on the school grounds nor does appear that he attempted to enter school grounds, he did not have a real weapon on his person in the vicinity of the school grounds, and the toy-weapon he had on him was completely in-context to the ubiquitously-recognizable costume that he was wearing.
If burlesque dancing can be legally considered artistic expression and subject to first amendment protections, then this should certainly pass muster.
It's also good to be skeptical if this thing doesn't do all of the work on the handheld device and simply send the parsed text to the search engine or other central server to retrieve only the relevant information.
I mean, c'mon already! I had Dragon running on a friggin' Macintosh LCII in elementary school! That thing was running System 7.1 on a Motorola 68030 with 4MB RAM. Why cant my multi-Gigahertz smartphone with 64GB storage and 4GB RAM do the basic speech-to-text locally that a 25 year old Macintosh can?
This is true, but if the faucet itself corrodes (really hard water around here) then it's no good to replace cartridges.
We went with a double-swing faucet from T&S in our kitchen; I have a three-basin sink and the regular faucets don't reach well into the left and right basins unless they stick so far out that they don't work in the small middle one, so this solution, while more expensive than a consumer-grade faucet, works well. Even better, they sell knobs and pulls so if we ever get arthritis we can change them out and have big wings to grab on to.
Sometimes you have no choice if you have to drill through joists and can't drill through the outside of a building to install inflexible stuff. That said, ENT (nonmetallic, the blue corrugated stuff) works well and at least in my area is within code for up to 600V applications. My ceiling in my workshop is 28' 2x12 beams with a flat roof on top, so if I don't want to hang my tubing/piping below the joists this is the kind of thing I have to use.
DO NOT USE YELLOW 77 LUBRICANT! It becomes glue after a few years. PAIN IN THE ASS.
Leave pullstrings in the conduit so that pulling new cable through later is easier.
If the house has an open attic or basement I'd do all 3/4" EMT conduit stubs for all services, be they power, data, whatever, so that there's no in-wall problems later. I'd attempt to anticipate the locations of televisions, speakers, computers, wireless access points, and anything else that might use a cable and plumb the necessary number and size of conduit for the necessary power and data requirements.
I'd install a central vacuum system. It could be used for cleaning and for a tech bench to clean up dust when working on things, and with a proper filter might make for a good soldering station to get the fumes away. I would also run 1/2" or 3/4" soft copper in a giant loop above each room, probably "K" or maybe "L" rated, that could be hooked to an air compressor for things like cleaning, airbrush panting, etc.
I'd define an MDF and run several service-entrance conduits from the expected service-hookup locations on the outside of the house, so that whatever subscribed, hard-line services come, there won't be a need to drill more. Probably 1" conduit.
I'd use all 20A circuits for all electrical outlets. Circuits would not cross rooms. Some rooms would get more than one if they have more than ten outlets.
I would completely skip on consumer-grade faucets. Chicago Faucets or T&S Brass everywhere.
Behind the main panel I would define a room that could be a battery/inverter room. It would be climate controlled.
I would plan on running Ethernet everywhere. I would install conduit to later let me place cameras on the outside of the structure if I was at-all concerned that they'd be needed.
I would look into those windows that are effective large single-pixel LCDs, so that one can turn-off the view by applying power to the window.
Quite frankly, all of this stuff should have been tested at QA or in beta, before it reached release, and even more importantly this kind of thing shouldn't break the software to the point that it has to be expunged from the system to fix it.
In other circumstances I would agree with you, but the protocol portion of the URL is something that we already auto-correct when it's omitted entirely, and I can't tell you the number of times I've had to coach people on "aich tea tea pea colon slash slash, no the other slash, the one that's the same key as the question mark. You know, the one down in the lower right corner next to the shift key?"
I'm a little surprised that, given the ubiquity of the web over other protocols, we haven't had some shift to hide the protocol part entirely.
And ironically enough it appeals to the authoritarian crowd too, since it brings up aspects of Hastert that, if true, probably should be prosecuted if they could be, and demonstrates an alternate means of getting at him if other channels are not available. Kind of like how the US Government got Al Capone on taxes when they couldn't get him for the really awful things his organization did to people...
I showed that strip to a friend of mine that maintains the DB for a school district's enrollment system. She laughed. Then she got into the system and checked how that was coded...
You know, it probably still shows up in a lot of searches.
Sounds like a problem with search engines. They should push sites carrying malware down the rankings, or off the list entirely. Has anyone reported Sourceforge to Google and other malware site list maintainers?
And how exactly are the search engines supposed to know that sites are pushing malware? What metric should search engines use for defining malware? In the case of the GIMP experience it sounds like Sourceforge put up a version that displays ads. Given that most search engines are funded through the use of ads displayed to users that might not exactly hit their criteria for malware.
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Not verifiable through experiment, but reasonable enough to pay the rent.
To a lot of people, so's this:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
I already have to deal with enough religion on a day-to-day basis. I don't need more of them.
That's probably the biggest fundamental danger with something like String Theory that currently has no method to test; if it effectively becomes dogma over centuries or even decades in the way that the Earth-centric Universe had then it's very, very difficult to undo that even when a new hypothesis with actual compelling evidence is crafted. The problem isn't even necessarily among scientists either, though they can have their doubts, but in a public that doesn't understand the scientific process and is unwilling to accept a scientific challenge to their deeply-held world views and religious perspectives.
I suppose that's why I want scientists to continue working on other hypotheses for the explanation of the fundamental structure of the Universe, so that scientists and the public don't make too many assumptions about what's right versus what's still up for debate.
Don't forget about literally just about everyone in The A-Team...
I grew up with really confused notions of what gunfights were like.
I've been trying. Reading Soylent a little more each day. It's just so much easier to bait people into moderating me up on Slashdot that I haven't been able to completely let go.
At least they were good enough to do some sanity-checking, in case a terrorist was attempting to manufacture an incident where a hospital or refugee center was blown up...
Assuming the story is true. It could be a good cover story for some other type of intelligence gathering. Plus if you can get Daesh to stop using social media, it could be a good thing.
That was my thought. They must have figured that stemming the recruitment was worth having fewer low-hanging-fruit to attack. Of course, this isn't a new phenomenon, Geraldo Riviera did something similar during our ground operations when he was an embedded reporter and US military personnel have occasionally screwed up this way and cost us equipment too. It's possible they won't learn their lesson.
If this was exif tags from the selfie, then that would be data, not metadata.
I am really, really surprised that they chose to tell us any of this honestly, unless they announced this to try to stem the flow of marketing from ISIS toward young impressionable Muslims by making the social media aspect seem particularly dangerous. If the rank-and-file can't publish their experiences without being blown up, the rank-and-file might stop trying to encourage others to join. That leaves the older people at the top to try to make such decisions, and they might not be as good at convincing the young to join them.
True. MBAs seem to like to pretend that the past didn't dictate how the present came to be, and thus by ignoring it destroy the future.
I just took down an opener that was original equipment on my house from '79, an Allister Type IIA that was branded as a Delden Type II. It was on an accessory building so it did not need to have the sensors that doors on homes have to have, and it didn't even have a built-in receiver, one had to be added on extra if one wanted to use a radio control.
I replaced it because I needed more ceiling clearance, so I went with a jackshaft opener. It was working fine when I took it down.
The unit on the house itself is also pre-rolling-code, but has the capability of using the sensors for objects in the door path. A rolling-code receiver has been added and the original fixed-code mechanism disabled. I think it also dates to '79.
I'm wondering if this could get tossed simply out of being a violation of his freedom of expression. He was not on the school grounds nor does appear that he attempted to enter school grounds, he did not have a real weapon on his person in the vicinity of the school grounds, and the toy-weapon he had on him was completely in-context to the ubiquitously-recognizable costume that he was wearing.
If burlesque dancing can be legally considered artistic expression and subject to first amendment protections, then this should certainly pass muster.
Not compared to a Jedi he couldn't...
The stormtrooper was easily and clearly observed brandishing a blaster (obviously a danger to people.)
Apparently you haven't seen the movies. Stormtroopers with blasters are about the safest group that you can have shooting at you.
You sure you aren't describing langoliers rather than MBAs?
There's a difference?
If a 68030 has enough oomph at 33MHz, I don't think that a multicore 1.5GHz processor is going to struggle.
It's also good to be skeptical if this thing doesn't do all of the work on the handheld device and simply send the parsed text to the search engine or other central server to retrieve only the relevant information.
I mean, c'mon already! I had Dragon running on a friggin' Macintosh LCII in elementary school! That thing was running System 7.1 on a Motorola 68030 with 4MB RAM. Why cant my multi-Gigahertz smartphone with 64GB storage and 4GB RAM do the basic speech-to-text locally that a 25 year old Macintosh can?
I have a lift in the three-car garage. I didn't see a reason to put one into the two-car garage. Generally one lift is enough.
This is true, but if the faucet itself corrodes (really hard water around here) then it's no good to replace cartridges.
We went with a double-swing faucet from T&S in our kitchen; I have a three-basin sink and the regular faucets don't reach well into the left and right basins unless they stick so far out that they don't work in the small middle one, so this solution, while more expensive than a consumer-grade faucet, works well. Even better, they sell knobs and pulls so if we ever get arthritis we can change them out and have big wings to grab on to.
Sometimes you have no choice if you have to drill through joists and can't drill through the outside of a building to install inflexible stuff. That said, ENT (nonmetallic, the blue corrugated stuff) works well and at least in my area is within code for up to 600V applications. My ceiling in my workshop is 28' 2x12 beams with a flat roof on top, so if I don't want to hang my tubing/piping below the joists this is the kind of thing I have to use.
DO NOT USE YELLOW 77 LUBRICANT! It becomes glue after a few years. PAIN IN THE ASS.
Leave pullstrings in the conduit so that pulling new cable through later is easier.
If the house has an open attic or basement I'd do all 3/4" EMT conduit stubs for all services, be they power, data, whatever, so that there's no in-wall problems later. I'd attempt to anticipate the locations of televisions, speakers, computers, wireless access points, and anything else that might use a cable and plumb the necessary number and size of conduit for the necessary power and data requirements.
I'd install a central vacuum system. It could be used for cleaning and for a tech bench to clean up dust when working on things, and with a proper filter might make for a good soldering station to get the fumes away. I would also run 1/2" or 3/4" soft copper in a giant loop above each room, probably "K" or maybe "L" rated, that could be hooked to an air compressor for things like cleaning, airbrush panting, etc.
I'd define an MDF and run several service-entrance conduits from the expected service-hookup locations on the outside of the house, so that whatever subscribed, hard-line services come, there won't be a need to drill more. Probably 1" conduit.
I'd use all 20A circuits for all electrical outlets. Circuits would not cross rooms. Some rooms would get more than one if they have more than ten outlets.
I would completely skip on consumer-grade faucets. Chicago Faucets or T&S Brass everywhere.
Behind the main panel I would define a room that could be a battery/inverter room. It would be climate controlled.
I would plan on running Ethernet everywhere. I would install conduit to later let me place cameras on the outside of the structure if I was at-all concerned that they'd be needed.
I would look into those windows that are effective large single-pixel LCDs, so that one can turn-off the view by applying power to the window.
Quite frankly, all of this stuff should have been tested at QA or in beta, before it reached release, and even more importantly this kind of thing shouldn't break the software to the point that it has to be expunged from the system to fix it.
In other circumstances I would agree with you, but the protocol portion of the URL is something that we already auto-correct when it's omitted entirely, and I can't tell you the number of times I've had to coach people on "aich tea tea pea colon slash slash, no the other slash, the one that's the same key as the question mark. You know, the one down in the lower right corner next to the shift key?"
I'm a little surprised that, given the ubiquity of the web over other protocols, we haven't had some shift to hide the protocol part entirely.
And ironically enough it appeals to the authoritarian crowd too, since it brings up aspects of Hastert that, if true, probably should be prosecuted if they could be, and demonstrates an alternate means of getting at him if other channels are not available. Kind of like how the US Government got Al Capone on taxes when they couldn't get him for the really awful things his organization did to people...
I showed that strip to a friend of mine that maintains the DB for a school district's enrollment system. She laughed. Then she got into the system and checked how that was coded...
You know, it probably still shows up in a lot of searches.
Sounds like a problem with search engines. They should push sites carrying malware down the rankings, or off the list entirely. Has anyone reported Sourceforge to Google and other malware site list maintainers?
And how exactly are the search engines supposed to know that sites are pushing malware? What metric should search engines use for defining malware? In the case of the GIMP experience it sounds like Sourceforge put up a version that displays ads. Given that most search engines are funded through the use of ads displayed to users that might not exactly hit their criteria for malware.
Okay, I'll bite, I looked at the man page and didn't see a -f option...